“Teleporting quantum information is now a practical reality,” asserts Deutsche Telekom. The firm’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware to demo quantum teleportation over 30km of live, commercial Berlin fiber, running alongside classical internet traffic. In an email to Tom’s Hardware, Deutsche Telekom’s PR folks said that Cisco also ran the same hardware and demo process to connect data centers in NYC.

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      The lack of affordable consumer: harddrives, ssds, RAM, and gpus will do that long before they get this working.

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        But latency is the determining factor in cloud gaming, not the hardware. The speed of light is the bottleneck.

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          I’m aware. It’s a trash experience currently. But that won’t stop them from pushing it anyway, now that personal machines are being priced out of the market.